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August 23, 2015

UEFA has appointed the following
match officials to take charge of next Tuesday's play-offs for
Champions League 2015/2016. Among others, new Elite Szymon Marciniak from Poland will officiate the return match between Shakhtar Donetsk and Rapid Wien.

August 21, 2015

UEFA has chosen the following officials to take charge of the second legs of Europa League's Play-Offs 2nd legs. Among others, U-17 World Cup referee Martin Strömbergsson will be observed by Marc Batta in Bilbao. While Kenn Hansen will be observed by Frank De Bleeckere in Jablonec, Portuguese referee Artur Soares Dias will officiate in Croatia under the eyes of Peter Fröjdfeldt.

August 18, 2015

FIFA has appointed 21 referee trios to be in charge of 2015 FIFA U17
World Cup which will be hosted by Chile. The tournament will function
as a preparation and basis for the referees' selection for 2018 FIFA
World Cup. Moreover, six officials have been selected as "support referees".

August 17, 2015

UEFA has appointed the following match officials to take charge of next Wednesday's play-offs for Champions League 2015/2016. Among others, new Elite Sergei Karasev will be in charge of Skënderbeu - Dinamo Zagreb, observed by Italian Alfredo Trentalange, while Mark Clattenburg from England will oversee the tie between Valencia CF and AS Monaco.

August 16, 2015

UEFA's Referee Officers have chosen the following match officials to take charge of next Tuesday's play-offs for Champions League 2015/2016. Among others, Deniz Aytekin of Germany will take charge of Manchester United's first leg against Club Brugge observed by Jaap Uilenberg.

August 13, 2015

On the agenda of the last day at this season's UEFA preparatory course for top referees, there is a topic that becomes more and more relevant in modern, but surely also amateur football. While the referee's decisions were mostly accepted without any protest some decades ago - which is hard to imagine considering the behaviour of some players nowadays - this does not count anymore. Good referees are not only accurate decision-takers today, they are, above all, convincing decision-sellers. Nonetheless, players will not give up to attribute their own mistakes to the match officials manifesting itself in a phenomenon UEFA calls "mobbing the referee".

News on refereeing: UEFA's pre-season course for referees, the abandonment of a German Cup match, a facebook page started as suddenly as it was closed again owned by a Swedish FIFA official and Howard Webb's new role in Saudi Arabia.

August 12, 2015

These are the referee appointments for the first leg matches of this season's UEFA Europa League's Play-Offs. Among others, some of the new Elite referees will take charge of their first UEFA games in 2015/16.

August 2, 2015

One of the focal questions that should drive ambitious referees at all levels is: "How can I become better?" For sure, this question similarly concerns those who manage these referees: "How can I make this referee better?".

There is even a scientific approach called Performance Improvement, which can be located in the field of Consulting and Human Resource Management and which is interested in these issues. Given the considerable amount of overlaps between management and refereeing, it is applicable for refereeing in quite a good and valid way. Based on this approach, I am going to present you a short series of posts, investigating four steps to answer the questions placed above and showing the relevance for referees (like you) themselves, referee observers and referee managers.

August 1, 2015

Analysis of four red cards shown in last week's Champions League and Europa League Third Qualifying Round. There were more interesting situations last week, so this is only a small essence. What these cards have all in common: They were correct and serve as good examples for how things should or should not be like.